i'm off in half an hour.

meg, i think the retallack book takes on some of these issues with great optimism. i'm not big on the discovery model finally though (which i don't think retallack falls into; but she does see writing as taking part in a larger dialogue about the nature of things that is going on in the sciences, etc.). or models of writing that argue that when it matters it does something that hasn't been done before.

have a good workshop free week.